This year, we were only able to manage one camping trip, but it was a fun one! This time, we came prepared with bikes (unlike last year when poor Dylan basically chased all the bikers on foot!)! Plus, we brought our dutch oven and had a “fancy shmancy-sounding” dish, risotto, for dinner!
The one unfortunate thing is that Tom was extraordinarily busy so I did 95% of the gathering of stuff for the trip on my own. This meant, of course, that I forgot things…like plates(!) and candles for Cameron’s bday chocolate loaf. I also forgot dish soap and handwashing soap!
However, I did remember to buy a couple of new chairs for the kids! These ones were swanky director’s chairs with side tables.
Anyway, we spent the first night doing set up. We set up the tent in record time and even managed to serve dinner in a timely fashion. For Cameron’s bday dessert, we did special s’mores with peanut butter cups and/or rice milk chocolate with crispy stuff (like Nestle Crunch bars).
Cameron was a great sport about spending her special day at camp. I’m not actually sure how avid a camper she is. She is not yet riding her pedal bike, so she and Chloe were campsite-bound and Cameron, of course, is a total fashionista (yikes), so she was not so keen on having to wear the same thing over and over and with no option for one of her favorite dresses to boot! The only reason I knew she was not as enthused as Dylan was her frequent inquiries as to when we were going home! Chloe and Dylan, on the other hand, seemed pretty content.
We did the hike to the Pioneer Tree on Day 2; the following day, the kids, Heather, Assaf and Tom did the Cross Marin bike trail all the way to the park’s boundary (I stayed with the girls — we walked to the campfire center and then played games in the tent).
Tom and I got some running in…and Heather and I did the Cross Marin bike trail together as well.
It was a fun camping trip–a good length of time (3 nights)…but I was ready for a shower when we got home!
